3rd May 2022, 6:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 4th May 2022, 7:45 AM by A Black Falcon.)
The Right:
- Spend 50 years building towards a specific goal, ending Roe
- Vote based on judges, making sure your candidates support your side of this key issue
- Vote in off-year elections because of wanting to win on judicial nominations
- Steadily gain ground over time towards your goal (regardless of how unpopular this goal is with the general public)
- Keep the Supreme Court thanks to a combination of luck and adept decision-making
The Left:
- Spend 50 years resting on their laurels and failing to get a bill passed through congress making abortion legal (because it's always risky to rely exclusively on a court decision)
- Almost never vote based on judges or judicial issues, don't demand as much on the issue from candidates
- Don't bother to vote on off-year elections because the President isn't on the ballot and that's the only race people care about
- 'Judges? What are those?'
- Steadily lose ground over time on the issue despite having a commanding lead in public polling, and do nothing much to reverse this slide
And it's suprising that the far right is going to finally achieve their goal?
Of course this is horrible -- and it's absolutely no surprise whatsoever that Alito also wants to repeal the decisions that legalized birth control, gay marriage, and probably also inter-racial marriage -- but... I mean, just read that list above. The right has been primarily motivated since the '70s by their hatred for legal abortion, and they have slowly been winning in the law on the issue. Public opinion is strongly against banning it again, but most of those people either vote for Republicans anyway and are now pretending to be surprised (see, for example, Susan Collins and her lies about how this isn't what Kavanaugh and Gorsuch said to her at all) or are Democrats and only maybe kinda care enough to vote once every four years maybe if we're lucky, and even then getting them to the polls is like pulling teeth... gah.
So yeah, it's awful, but this result was probably inevitable. The real question is how committed are liberals to winning on this and the other key social issues long term.
- Spend 50 years building towards a specific goal, ending Roe
- Vote based on judges, making sure your candidates support your side of this key issue
- Vote in off-year elections because of wanting to win on judicial nominations
- Steadily gain ground over time towards your goal (regardless of how unpopular this goal is with the general public)
- Keep the Supreme Court thanks to a combination of luck and adept decision-making
The Left:
- Spend 50 years resting on their laurels and failing to get a bill passed through congress making abortion legal (because it's always risky to rely exclusively on a court decision)
- Almost never vote based on judges or judicial issues, don't demand as much on the issue from candidates
- Don't bother to vote on off-year elections because the President isn't on the ballot and that's the only race people care about
- 'Judges? What are those?'
- Steadily lose ground over time on the issue despite having a commanding lead in public polling, and do nothing much to reverse this slide
And it's suprising that the far right is going to finally achieve their goal?
Of course this is horrible -- and it's absolutely no surprise whatsoever that Alito also wants to repeal the decisions that legalized birth control, gay marriage, and probably also inter-racial marriage -- but... I mean, just read that list above. The right has been primarily motivated since the '70s by their hatred for legal abortion, and they have slowly been winning in the law on the issue. Public opinion is strongly against banning it again, but most of those people either vote for Republicans anyway and are now pretending to be surprised (see, for example, Susan Collins and her lies about how this isn't what Kavanaugh and Gorsuch said to her at all) or are Democrats and only maybe kinda care enough to vote once every four years maybe if we're lucky, and even then getting them to the polls is like pulling teeth... gah.
So yeah, it's awful, but this result was probably inevitable. The real question is how committed are liberals to winning on this and the other key social issues long term.